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...Even after they’d moved out, Barry’s voice lingered in our house as we’d listen to his record from 1962, “Wild Life in Suburbia”, on the gramophone....
...I wish I’d had that tip years ago🤦🏼♀️. (Current state of inbox: 363,000.) And finally . . ....
...I recalled a sentence from an Edna St Vincent Millay poem: “Euclid alone has looked on Beauty bare.” Even for the most mathematically uninclined minds, geometry is the fount of visual pleasure....
...They’d kill you. They took shit from no one,” Arthur says....
...AI can only triumph if it incorporates the secret of Dame Edna’s success. stuart.kirk@ft.com...
...Once you realise how material it is to a company’s operations, then you’d say it’s an enterprise risk — we probably need a board expert on it, and we need to fund it.”...
...Givenchy Black D-frame sunglasses (£229, harveynichols.com) will do the trick....
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...They’d go to Zabar’s, a Jewish deli, for bagels with scallion cream cheese. She’d open Irma Rombauer’s Joy of Cooking and make goulash. She introduced Bailey to different ethnic foods....
...I’m not sure I could’ve written Half of a Yellow Sun if I’d experienced the Nigerian Biafran war. I think I have the distance, not just of time, but of not having directly experienced the war....
...Edna Lewis’s books give me succour and direction: she got people to respect soul food. And Mashama Bailey inspires me....
...“I’d read a bit of the Bible. I’d read things that would bestir me to go to places I’d normally shudder from....
...“You’d need to put frontiers and customs,” he said. “It’s like Brexit within Mexico . . . It will be very difficult to leave but you can threaten, and with threats, negotiate something.”...
...My life hasn’t turned out how I’d like”? What made me answer, “I am really sorry to hear that. Must be so, so tough . . . ” and miss my stop?...
...Scrimping a living from odd secretarial and life-modelling jobs, she found herself in Greenwich Village at the centre of a downtown art scene that included Eugene O’Neill, the writers Djuna Barnes and Edna...
...Sergio, a 75-year-old insurance salesman, said: “Any other year, I’d already have planned my holidays by now.”...
...family so super-ordinary — DIY dad, house-proud mum, two all-American teens and a toddler — that you’d have to suspect hidden super-powers....
...In a historical tour d’horizon peppered with Geldofian opinions and expletives, our guide explains why he considers Yeats the great prophet of “modern, pluralist” Ireland and how “his revolution won in the...
...“If I wasn’t writing I’d feel I was atrophying.” Our coffee has also come and gone now, and the restaurant has emptied of its loud lunchers....
...I’d never experienced — not just personally, [nor] been around — such an aggressive press and a press that felt so entitled to your time, to your information, to your life....
...The first is about his mother, Edna, written in 1986, five years after her death. “I just missed her,” he says....
...details of recent European political history remains the arrest of the Serbian nationalist leader Radovan Karadzic on war crimes charges in Belgrade in July 2008: full-bearded and apparently monkish, he’d...
...Claire Messud Author of ‘The Woman Upstairs’ One of the most powerful and resonant books I’ve read this year is Edna O’Brien’s haunting novel The Little Red Chairs (Faber)....
...Novels by Edna O’Brien and Elif Shafak. Do you try to keep up with the news when you’re on holiday? The problem is that the news and current affairs try to keep up with me....
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